A different kind of interface

[Stef Mientki]

Several guys are working on a MatLab like editor / IDE, based on wxPython,
including myself ;-) see
  http://mientki.ruhosting.nl/data_www/pylab_works/pw_debug.html
e.g. with F9 it runs either the selected code or if nothing selected the 
whole code
or even more powerfull (depending on your needs)
  http://mientki.ruhosting.nl/data_www/pylab_works/pw_signal_workbench.html
cheers,
Stef

bearophileHUGS at lycos.com wrote:
> I use the Python shell daily, plus of course normal editors to edit
> python scripts. They both are very useful for different purposes. But
> the default interactive shell isn't much handy if you want to modify
> the past code to run it again, or you want to embed a bit of text in
> the code, or if you want to produce something a bit more clean that
> you can save, or just if you want to edit and debug 7-lines long
> programs.
>
> I have tried IPython, but I have never appreciated it too much, maybe
> because it requires me to remember too many things (and because on Win
> it's probably a little less handy). Probably I need something closer
> to an editor and less close to a shell.
>
> In past I have also used the interactive editor of Mathematica (older
> versions, but I think its basic usage isn't changed much later), but
> despite being quite handy if you want to mix plotting and the editing
> of small formulas, I can't appreciate it to write programs more than 3
> lines long. It's not a good or handy editor, and it has some other
> disadvantages
>
> So I have always tried to think for possible alternative solutions for
> an interactive way to use Python. I am not looking for something to
> replace the nornal editors used to write long Python programs.
>
> Years ago I have found this nice small program, TextCalc:
> http://www.atomixbuttons.com/textcalc/
>
> Despite being very limited and being not integrated with everything
> else, it's so handy that for me in certain situations it's the right
> tool to use when I have to process numbers and data in simple ways. It
> helps me keep all the intermediate solutions, you can save the working
> page just as the text file you are seeing, it's "passive", it doesn't
> go bang, so if you want you can use it just a primitive text editor.
> It does something only when you ask it to. And for a basic usage there
> is nearly nothing to remember.
>
> I don't know if this can be any good, but maybe a textcalc-like
> interface that (beside having few graphical buttons for normal
> operations, and few basic text editing capabilities) allows to use
> Python may be a good idea. Probably there are better designs for this
> interface, but it's hard to invent them.
>
> If you have ideas I'd like to know them.
>
> Bye,
> bearophile
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